Larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or battle group and defend them against powerful short-range attackers. In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort Churchill, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy Admiral Panteleyev, an Udaloy-class guided missile destroyer of the Russian Navy Army Tank Destroyer Doctrine in World War II, 1985.For other uses, see Destroyer (disambiguation). Bailey, Faint Praise: American Tanks and Tank Destroyers During World War II, 1983. The last tank destroyer units were disbanded in 1946. Thereafter, the tank destroyer's fire support and antitank missions were officially assigned to tanks. After World War II, the army decided that there was no functional difference between a tank destroyer and a medium tank.
tank destroyers that did encounter heavy German tanks were generally outgunned. In combat, however, they were usually dispersed among front‐line units, where they provided their most valuable service as mobile artillery directly supporting the infantry. Tank destroyer units were trained to operate aggressively and en masse to destroy enemy armor. These carried less armor and mounted more powerful guns than the standard M‐4 Sherman tank. Self‐propelled tank destroyers had 3‐inch, 76mm or (late in the war) 90mm guns mounted on tank chassis within fully rotating, open‐topped turrets.
The towed weapons were 3‐inch artillery pieces pulled by half‐tracks. Tank destroyer weapons could be either towed or self‐propelled. In November 1941, the War Department ordered the creation of such units, designated “tank destroyer” battalions. McNair, head of army doctrine and training, decided that mobile, powerfully gunned antitank units were the best way to defeat enemy tanks. Army's response to Germany's Blitzkrieg armored victories over Poland and France in the early years of World War II.
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